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Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Henry Farmer, A HISTORY OF ARABIAN MUSIC TO THE 13TH CENTURY (Luzac Oriental, 1994 [1929])
Walter Feldman, MUSIC OF THE OTTOMAN COURT: MAKAM, COMPOSITION, AND THE EARLY OTTOMAN INSTRUMENTAL REPERTOIRE (Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1996)
Rachel Harris and Martin Stokes (eds), THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE MUSIC OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF OWEN WRIGHT (Routledge, 2017)
Laudan Nooshin, IRANIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC: THE DISCOURSES AND PRACTICE OF CREATIVITY (Ashgate, 2015)
George Sawa, MUSIC PERFORMANCE PRACTICE IN THE EARLY ABBASID ERA, 132-320 AH/750-932 AD (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2004)
Fadlou Shehadi, PHILOSOPHIES OF MUSIC IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM (Brill, 1995)
Owen Wright, THE MODAL SYSTEM OF ARAB AND PERSIAN MUSIC A.D. 1250-1300 (Oxford University Press, 1978)
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Examinations and Assignments:
Written analyses of primary sources in translation, an oral presentation, and a final paper. |
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Topic: Theory and Practice of Music in the Islamic World
This seminar will examine the interaction between music theory and performance practice in the Islamic Middle East and Central Asia from the medieval to modern era. Drawing on selected written, visual, and aural sources--early historiography and iconography, poetry and song collections, and scholarly treatises, musical notations and sound recordings--we will inquire into the nature of approaches to the study of music, and their relationship to contemporaneous artistic life, in the cultures and societies of Abbasid Arab lands, Timurid Khorasan and Transoxania, Safavid Persia, Ottoman Turkey, and Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia. Interpretations of pitch and rhythm organization, descriptions of musical instruments, and concepts of music aesthetics and affect will be discussed in the context of indigenous oral traditions of music knowledge, the legacy of ancient Greek and Byzantine scholarship, Islamic sciences, philosophy, and Sufism. Developments in music thought and creative practice will be traced to wider intellectual and cultural trends of the time, courtly patronage, colonial policy, and postcolonial ideology. Particular attention will be given to maqam modal systems and repertoires in their varied forms across different historical periods and geographical regions.
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| Instructor(s): Daukeyeva,Saida Times: .M.W... 11:10AM-12:30PM; Location: RHH003; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 8 | JR major: 7 | | |
| Seats Available: 6 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: X |
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